Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Red Flags with Obama’s Labor Nominee

President Obama has been widely criticized for nominating former Justice
Department Civil Rights Division head Thomas Perez to be Labor Secretary.Concerns about Perez include his views on illegal
immigrants and his work in the DOJ.

Senator Jeff Sessions said
Perez is “the wrong man for this job.” Sessions explained that Perez’s work
with the advocacy group called Casa de Maryland demonstrates his radical views
on illegal immigration.

Sessions declared
that Perez “had a controversial tenure at the Department of Justice, where he
has demonstrated a fundamentally political approach to the law.” Perez and other political appointees
dismissed career attorneys’ decision to grant preclearance to voter ID law in South
Carolina, which then led to costly litigation.
Perez is also linked to the controversial decision to drop the
Philadelphia voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers.

Senator David Vitter is concerned that the Justice Department has
still not answered questions about the lack of enforcement of the National
Voter Registration Act in his state.

Senator Charles Grassley has questions why Perez made a deal with a
Minnesota city to withdraw a housing case before the Supreme Court could review
it last year.